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How are you controlling this when it didn't have MIDI - Thru what looks like the Kurzweil 250? - Thru a 25 pin conversion kit? Yeah I'm dating myself 😉 Because when I bought the first MIDI synthesizer (Prophet 600) I saw this off to the side and started playing it I remember the funny "knock" that it had when changing programs 🙂. I also remember the ethereal thickness of sound like it was about 10 ARP 2600s, an Oberheim 8 voice and whatever else you wanted to throw in 😌 But the well over $5,000 price tag was beyond me. The expander wasn't out yet. I remember H.H. talking about how you could choose the signal path.

Glad you're having a good time doing this. I hate to be a downer, and I'm sure I'm not the first to point out a few things you need to improve. Please don't take this badly - it's more for anyone who tunes in to figure how this needs to be done.. 1 - your smoker isn't giving out any smoke. Happily for you, the bees seem to be super calm, so not a big problem. With regular bees though, you need to light the smoker first, before donning the bee suit so it has time to really get going. It'll be there when you really need it. 2. Most of the frames you select are uncapped and not-ready to be extracted. At this stage, they're simple nectar. It only becomes honey after the bees dry it out to 19% or less water content, when they cap it. Uncapped 'near-honey' has too high a water content and will ferment. 90% capped frames are usually OK. Better still, buy a cheap refractometer to check the water content. Most states specify a maximum water content level before honey can be sold. 3. Uncapping calls that aren't actually capped seems a waste of time. Also - the idea of uncapping into the extractor is a new one for me. I'm probably being too picky already, so if it works for you - go for it. Now the frames are drawn, put 9 equally spaced frames in each super - the bees will store much more honey in them,. Then you'll also end up with a lot more uncapping wax - too much to put through the filters. 4. Filling jars with a ladle? It's much, much easier and cleaner to fill from a bucket through a honey gate. No need to wash and dry everything. Other than those few things. Happy beekeeping.

The music is fab as well :)

Love seeing this Randel!

Great music!! Do you let the bees jam on the Chromas?

Cool music!

Man that's a lot of jars

What a beeautiful vidio. I love all the buzzing in the bee real.

Wow, great sounds! The Chroma has a personality of it's own.

what are the differences with the chroma keyboard and the expander?

Great sounds! Have you considered offering a few tips on how to get these rich, evolving timbres from the Chroma? Now that Cherry Audio has released its emulation, I bet more people will see your video (as I did) and would love to get an idea how you got these sounds. Of course, you don't have to give *everything* away, but a few tips might be nice. 🙂

Listening to this on an iPhone 12, and still it sounds huge and amazing!

the unit sounds good

sounds great!

The Chroma is my absolute favorite analog synth. Everyone (rightfully) talks about the icons like the CS-80, Jupiter 8, Prophet 5, all the classic Moogs, etc but I don't see the Chroma ever discussed much at least in my experience. That blows my mind because it's capabilities are incredible for an analog synth from 1981. The routing and modulation abilities are insane and result in sounds many of which I have yet to hear replicated by anything else. I think the only synths that come close to doing what the Chroma can is the Oberheim Matrix 12 and Xpander, along with the Kurzweil K2000 but with its own unique twist. Not to mention some of the other great features like early computer implementation (coupled with the modulation capabilities really made it ahead of its time), auto-tuning, and the lovely full wood keyboard with true polyphonic aftertouch which was a pretty big deal for the time. I just love this synth. It's a shame no ones taken a crack at making a really faithful software VST version of it yet. Would love to see someone like Arturia do that in the future.

very cozy studio!

are these factory patches?

Cem3374 This sound is so massive, you don't even need keyboard skills !

Wow, I have an expander and a special Chroma, it is my absolute favourite polyphone-synth. Unfortunately, I move my appartment and have not enough space, so I must reduce my old synths too. My Chroma is very unique and special. I bought it from a musician and technician, who sold his copy from a f?double VCS-3 in one case (VCS-6) and added a second noise to the chroma, so mine has white and pink noise. What is the oruce for a perfect Chroma expander at the moment? With all updates CC+ and perfect protected power supply (BETTER then the psu from Italy, which is not bad either!).

I am into vintage synthesizers but never knew that there was an expander of the Chroma! Wonderful sounding! Very nice done! Greetings from Belgium.

My mentor had told me on a couple of occasions that standard metal keyboard stands shook too much. He was a pianist and organist who always felt everything had to be completely solid like the fixed models he played. He had this idea of trying to build a 4-tier stand out of PVC pipe. (I’m trying to recall if he also thought of including flat surfaces made of plexiglass or if that was my idea.( Could such a stand be built, and how much weight could it hold? Could it be made collapsible like the slim metal stands?

Is that your music? I hear lots of Korg Wavestation and other 80s synths.

I wouldn't exactly say you're "wasting my time", Randel. The expander produces really wonderful sounds! Although, if each unit (I have a Chroma) has two oscillators, and you're using them in a stereo setup triggering each from a MIDI keyboard then you are actually playing a four oscillator synth, right? This seems to be what ARP had in mind when they developed these to be mated with the Chroma. You'd be playing two synths that could either have the same sounds or even different patches layered together. I'd love to see you do some of that, since you actually have the capability. Best to you!

Beautiful sound and playing

Sounds like FM

The best chroma demo imo

Охуенно! Best for ambient and space music. 👍

It's a pity you have ALL THE RIGHT gear, but you can't play...

That not only sounds spectacular, Randell. It was fitting for you to trigger those modules from the K250. Though built by three different companies, the Chroma, the Synclavier II and the 250 were all originally intended to interact with the Apple IIe system. I can easily imagine (the late) Philip Dodds having maintained a regular correspondence/dialogue with (the late) Steve Jobs as the IIe and the Chroma were both being developed.

wonderful sound

Sounds like classic T-dream.

I'm coming back here again and again to hear that crispy, fat sound. It really tickles my ears and synapses!

Awesome!!!...the last pad sounds like it has FX on it when it hasn´t....now THAT´S awesome!!! Hope to get my Expander back working...it´s been in the "shop" for a long time now

Wow

The Logitech Marble Mouse seems to be the tool of choice for all of us.

Very interesting sounds, Thanks for sharing

Wonderful sounding!!!!

what a marvel

fat ! 😮

Fabulous sounding.

crazy even with FX that would be so very much at home in todays house/trance/techno to be fair sound wise alot of that early gear is really great sound wise, far beyond what it maybe might first look like

Wauw, what an unbelievable great sound these expanders. Thank you for sharing this with us! May I ask what converters you used to record? The recording translates very well

I thought that it was a polymoog 280a at first 🤔

possibly the most ominous sounding synth ever

Really enjoyed this and I’m usually hilariously underwhelmed by demos of classic synths. It sounds so good to my ears, almost like a desert (I’m getting weird as I struggle to articulate how this sounds to me). Preciate this a bunch. Peace ✌🏾

I have long suspected that these were used on the classic tv theme for Tales of the Unexpected. Can anyone verify this?

Prestine... are you recording in mono?

Totally unique sound color ! Marvelous machine!

Some serious early Enya coming from this.

Do you sale the memorimoog ?